Managed Futures 2011 Performance: Strategy Breakdown
As 2011 draws to a close and everyone begins to reflect over the happenings of the past year, those with money ‘at work’ usually become particularly pensive. Could I have done better? Could I have done worse? Does my portfolio need adjusting? The self-examination process this year is perhaps even more strenuous than usual. With […]
Managed Futures Matchmaking: Program Categorization the Sexy Way
It was last week that we sent out our end of year recap of how managed futures had fared over the past 12 months. Bypassing the idea of doing a program by program breakdown in favor of strategy performance analysis, we found ourselves facing a common question- how, exactly, should these programs be classified? We […]
Putting Numbers to the (Smiley) Faces
We always enjoy when Barry Ritholtz, one of our favorite market/economy bloggers, puts out his collection of market sentiment charts, as he did last week. Our favorite is the simplistic one below with the cute faces. We actually put numbers to this chart in a newsletter a while back, showing how getting in at the […]
Volatile Perspectives on Volatility’s Impact on Managed Futures Returns
We can’t blame people for being confused by the narrative out of the managed futures space in 2011. Here was an asset class that had made its name by thriving during volatile times, now struggling in the midst of seemingly high volatility and blaming volatility (of all things) for their poor performance. A performative contradiction […]
The Manager Selection Conundrum Solution
Barry Ritholtz recently posed an interesting question to a group of family offices during a presentation he made: “Who is good at picking Hedge fund managers? Who amongst you has the ability to consistently evaluate managers who then outperform over time?” In light of 2011’s subpar performance across the hedge fund universe (and in managed […]
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The performance data for various Commodity Trading Advisor (“CTA”) and Commodity Pools are compiled from various sources, including Barclay Hedge, RCM’s own estimates of performance based on account managed by advisors on its books, and reports directly from the advisors. These performance figures should not be relied on independent of the individual advisor’s disclosure document, which has important information regarding the method of calculation used, whether or not the performance includes proprietary results, and other important footnotes on the advisor’s track record.
The mention of general asset class performance (i.e. managed futures did well, stocks were down, bonds were up) is based on RCM’s direct experience in those asset classes, estimates of performance of dozens of CTAs followed by RCM, and averaging of various indices designed to track said asset classes.
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Past Performance is Not Necessarily Indicative of Future Results. The regulations of the CFTC require that prospective clients of a managed futures program (CTA) receive a disclosure document when they are solicited to enter into an agreement whereby the CTA will direct or guide the client’s commodity interest trading and that certain risk factors be highlighted. The disclosure document contains a complete description of the principal risk factors and each fee to be charged to your account by the CTA.
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